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Agrinio

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Virus destroyed all my doc,jpeg,mpeg,mp3
« on: April 21, 2004, 12:09:52 AM »
 :'(  Yesterday, when I turned on  my PC I saw that allthough the files doc,mpeg,jpeg,mp3 existed they contained 0 bytes and about 15 Gb space from my hard disk were free! The gif and pdf files were not infected. Is it a virus? Avast did not find anything. Do you know if there is a virus acting like that and if I can retrieve my files?

Furthermore, today I received a warning e-mail saying that worm.somefool.gen-1 was sent by me to someone I did not know! Is this related to the above?

Somebody help, please! Thank you

Agrinio

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Re:Virus destroyed all my doc,jpeg,mpeg,mp3
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2004, 12:53:43 AM »
I found it. It is named w32.mywife.a@mm or w32.blackmal.b@mm

whocares

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Re:Virus destroyed all my doc,jpeg,mpeg,mp3
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2004, 10:31:32 AM »
w32.mywife.a@mm or w32.blackmal.b@mm

Hi,
imho neither of those variants are responsible for deletion of your files
Sounds more like MYdoom.F or similar to me
Was avast resident shield always running, with uptodate VPS ?

can you open any of the above file types at all, if you make a new DOC or JPEG-fiel and try to open it ?